Parker Posey Quotes
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
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I'm attracted to heartbreakers.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
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Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin.
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I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.
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We need foreign skills to stay competitive.
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When they had a chance to win a conference championship, they responded. Give them credit.
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We will not find the solution to problems of violence, alienation, ignorance, and unhappiness in increasing our security, imposing more tests, punishing schools for their failure to produce 100 percent proficiency, or demanding that teachers be knowledgeable in the subjects they teach. Instead, we must allow teachers and students to interact as whole persons, and we must develop policies that treat the school as a whole community.
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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I'm a really big 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I have all the extended editions.
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
